Steve Crawford grew up not far from Bloomsburg in rural Columbia County, where he cleaned pig pens, castrated pigs, and literally made sausage, all of which, he says, was good prep for a career in government, politics, and lobbying.
Dad built jet engine blades at a TRW factory in Danville and was a hog and tomato farmer. Mom was a high school secretary at Millville Junior/Senior High School, which Crawford attended.
After graduating Mansfield University with a political science degree, he worked in state, local and federal government, was a deputy secretary of the state Department of Agriculture, director of the state House Agriculture & Rural Affairs Committee, worked for state House Democrats, then was legislative secretary and later chief of staff for Gov.